“Thank you.”
“So all three of us will have little ones close in age,” Jackson pointed out.
Boone nodded. “History repeating itself. How about that? Maybe Tucker and Gillian will have a girl too. Brianna, Emma, and Gillian Junior.”
“Haley will be in heaven,” Jackson observed.
“Four girls.” Tucker frowned. “That scares me to death. Imagine what it’ll be like if our girls want to date guys like us.”
“Won’t happen,” Boone declared. “We’ll choose their boyfriends for them.”
Sagely, his cousins nodded in agreement, then they resumed their ride.
Boone reflected on the changes in his own life as they snaked their way down to the canyon floor, retracing the path of their first visit. He recalled that on the very day when he’d received word that Great-Aunt Mildred had bequeathed this property to his family, Celeste Blessing had offered some profound advice.
And remember, Boone, she’d said. The trick to breaking the chains of the past is to reject it as your master and embrace it as your teacher.
Well, he sure hadn’t rushed that particular task, had he? Nevertheless, breaking those chains had taken the exact right amount of time. In less than eight hours, he was going to stand up in front of friends and family and marry his soul mate.
What better place to do it? Hadn’t Celeste always said that Enchanted Canyon was where troubled souls came to find peace? He was determined that his soul mate would find not only peace in Enchanted Canyon, but everlasting happiness and joy too. And when Boone made his mind up about something, he made it happen.
He intended to make Hannah the happiest woman in Texas, Colorado, the United States, then the entire world. Hell, he’d make it his life’s work to make her the happiest, most joyous woman in the universe! She was his soul mate.
His soul mate.
The words echoed through his mind shortly after six o’clock that evening. A string quartet played Bach, and roses perfumed the gentle evening breeze. With Jackson and Tucker standing beside him, Boone watched Brick Callahan seat Quetta McBride in the right front row of the white garden chairs next to Boone’s father. Then Gabe Callahan escorted the figure whom Hannah had chosen to serve the role of the bride’s mother up the aisle. Once Celeste was seated in the left front row, the bridesmaids dressed in autumn gold gowns started up the aisle—Caroline, Gillian, and his sisters, Lara and Frankie.
Boone’s heart swelled when a beaming Haley started up the aisle, pulling a wagon filled with roses and mums and Bree seated tall in her Bumbo.
Seated behind Boone’s mother, Brianna’s grandmother let out a little happy sob.
Then finally—finally—Hannah stepped into view, and Boone’s knees went weak. Gone was the woman who always wore black. This Hannah—his Hannah—wore the bright red-orange of the Enchanted Canyon maples in October, and she was glorious.
He loved her beyond measure with a heart that was whole.
After their vows were spoken, after they’d danced at the Last Chance Hall and skinny-dipped beneath a harvest moon beside a rushing waterfall, Boone made sweet, tender love to his new bride long into the night.
Eventually, exhausted and replete, beneath the star-filled Texas sky, Boone and Hannah drifted into sleep in each other’s arms.
Elsewhere in Enchanted Canyon, Jackson and Tucker also slept peacefully in the loving embrace of their blissful wives.
The McBrides of Texas had finally found their happily-ever-afters.
Titles by EMILY MARCH
Eternity Springs: The McBrides of Texas: Boone
Eternity Springs: The McBrides of Texas: Tucker
Jackson
The Christmas Wishing Tree
The First Kiss of Spring
A Stardance Summer
Christmas in Eternity Springs
Reunion Pass
Heartsong Cottage
Teardrop Lane
Dreamweaver Trail
Miracle Road
Reflection Point
Nightingale Way
Lover’s Leap
Heartache Falls
Hummingbird Lake
Angel’s Rest
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Epilogue
Titles by Emily March
Praise for New York Times Bestselling Author Emily March and her Eternity Springs novels
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.